Category Archives: Mental Health

Today, David was placed in a psychiatric residential treatment facility. He was a bit nervous, but hid it well. Seems like a rather nice facility. Hopefully, he won’t be discharged against doctor’s orders again. For treatment to be successful, the decision to keep a patient in care shouldn’t be up to an insurance company. It is going to take time for our family to return to pre-chaos life. As much as we love having David in our home, we really don’t like the behaviors. In time, his siblings will feel like they don’t need to hide in their rooms. The current placement is an hour from our home so we can have frequent visits to him. The nice thing too is that we have family in the city, so we can couple the visit to David with a visit to other family. Wish David luck. Tweet #fighting4answrs

One added benefit to blogging about our son and his mental health illnesses, is that it also gives me a timeline of some of his behaviors. Of course, I don’t document everything here. But this is a good baseline for everything that he has been through. So, for example, when a facility asks me for two weeks of behaviors coupled with the dates that they occurred, I don’t have to look far. I can come here and review two weeks worth of posts and have pretty much everything. Is it everything? Like I said previously, not by a long shot. What some entries do is trigger memories of other lesser events. I guess the point I am making here, is document. Document. Document! Write down every behavior that is not right for your home. Write down that the child argued about his coat, in fact threw a fit because he

David wants desperately to be trusted. He wants us to believe him. On Friday, he came home from school all excited because he was voted onto the student council at his school. Today, he informs us that it was all a lie. Nothing was true. So i have confirmation emails going out to his school. I want to believe him, but if he will lie about something as innocuous as student council, what else will he lie about? Since the therapist left, he has been slowly degrading in his mental state. Behaviors are increasing. Not sure what that is about. The therapist did take him for a walk, and according to him, was asking if he had any concerns about living at home. I want to believe what he says, but it is difficult. Soon, he will be in bed, asleep and we can start a new day tomorrow. Wish